I used to be firmly in the snobby anti-tarot card camp. Then I started researching the effectiveness of psychological counseling – talk therapy – and similar “treatments.”

Realizing that really they weren’t much different, and that talk therapy had as much pseudo-science inherent in it as tarot readings, I lost my disdain.

Mostly people benefit from talk therapy and tarot card readings due to the care effect. And the fact that about 1/3 of people get better on their own no matter what.

(In one of my few actual original thoughts, I was thinking about the care effect and its existence – though not in those words – before I’d ever read about it anywhere.)

Now I’d recommend people go to a tarot card reader than the psychologist as a tarot reader is probably much cheaper and would be just as effective.

“Talk therapy” is basically a very expensive scheme where you pay for a friend. Why not do it more cheaply, and have more fun?

After all, tarot cards have really great iconography and semiotics. I’ll probably mount some on the wall one day.